Tag: keeping diaries

I didn’t fully realize when I began keeping diaries, which would eventually morph into my writer’s notebook, that it signaled I was becoming a writer. I came to see the discipline as such when I read about so many of my literary heroes throughout history who kept journals, diaries or notebooks of their own. When I mention them in entries here on The Modern Salonière, I file them under this tag so that readers can easily find reference to them. They will be entries that include my making note of writing in my notebooks or others germinating ideas in theirs.

There are ample examples you can peruse below, quite a few of them pieces of writing that were born within the pages of my writer’s notebooks. I also have posts featuring entries Edith Wharton scribbled in her notebooks and journals; notes Edmund Wilson made in his; Queen Victoria’s Highland Journals; Leonardo da Vinci’s copious notebooks that I had the pleasure of seeing in an exhibition in Milan; and Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian journals.